Sync Beta- Mobile Apps. America's Multimedia Online (Human Eye Frames Per Second) This article is dedicated to a friend of mine, Mike. There is a common misconception in human thinking that our eyes can only interpret 30 Frames Per Second. This misconception dates back to the first human films where in fact a horse was filmed proving actually that at certain points they were resting on a single leg during running. These early films evolved to run at 24 Frames Per Second, which has been the standard for close to a century. A Movie theatre film running at 24 FPS (Frames Per Second) has an explanation. Now since the first CRT TV was released, televisions have been running at 30 Frames Per Second. Moving on now with the frame rate.
Computer Games and their industry driving use of Frames Per Second It's easy to understand the TV and Movies and the technology behind them. A frame or scene on a computer is first setup by your video card in a frame buffer. Even if you could put motion blur into games, it would be a waste. The Human Eye and it's real capabilities - tahDA! Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People.
Listly - Lists made easy + social + fun! - Listly. Listgeeks. Amazon 'wish list' is gateway to epic social engineering hack. Comedian Erik Stolhanske didn't know what he was getting himself into when he let a cybersecurity expert at SecureState take a crack at hacking him. The "Super Troopers" actor gave the company the green light to try to access his Twitter account with nothing more than his name. What he found out was that his entire digital life could have been compromised using simple techniques. SecureState profiling consultant Brandan Geise went on a mission to hack into Stolhanske's Twitter account, but instead was also able to gain access to his Amazon, AOL, Apple and Dropbox accounts, as well his Web hosting account.
A manipulation tactic called social engineering can give anyone smart enough to connect the dots a gateway into your digital domain. It doesn't require a single line of programming code. "Pretty much anyone can do this," Geise told CBSNews.com. Geise started by running a search of Stolhanske's name on Spokeo.com, a website that aggregates public information about people. He was in. Can Amazon Monetize Anything? Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in copyright. The time-traveling character from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five this month became available to would-be writers of Vonnegut fan fiction, through a new Amazon.com program called Kindle Worlds. Earlier this month, Amazon announced it had cut a deal with the Vonnegut Trust to legitimate Vonnegut fan fic published through the program. For Amazon, which has already scrambled publishing as we know it, this could be seen as a coup upon a coup. The idea of selling fan fic at all is fairly new; the idea of doing so legitimately through licensing is revolutionary; the idea of enlisting literary fiction in this scheme is a revolution upon a revolution.
When the Kindle Worlds program launched in May, its partners were largely relegated to pulpy works like Gossip Girl or The Vampire Diaries: the stuff of TV and comic books more than the stuff of New York literary parties. FAST COMPANY: Can you give an overview of Kindle Worlds? The Third Era Of Visual Art Is Finally Upon Us. Life by Experimentation - Quantifying the Road to Self Improvement. Building a keyboard from scratch. Drawing using shapes. How to Draw Using Shapes.
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That being said, I turned 26 this week and all things considered, I’ve done pretty well for myself. I’m sure many of you will disagree with these rules and shortcuts. [*] Talking about what you’re going to do makes you a lot less likely to actually do it. [*] If it’s less than 2 floors, never take the elevator. [*] Always pull the car up to the very end of the curb (never waste a parking spot) [*] Public speaking is only hard or scary if you don’t think you know what you’re talking about.
Top 10 Ways to Perfect Your Daily Routine with the Power of Science. Scientists use sound waves to levitate, manipulate matter (+video) A team of researchers in Switzerland have developed a way of levitating and transporting small objects using nothing but sound. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition Held aloft by sound waves, a water droplet and a piece of sodium metal waltz to Johann Strauss's 'Blue Danube.' Using ultrasonic waves – that is, sound waves whose frequency is too high for humans to hear – scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have made water droplets, instant coffee crystals, styrofoam flakes, and a toothpick, among other objects, hang in midair, move along a plane, and interact with each other.
It is the first time that scientists have been able to use sound to simultaneously levitate several objects next to each other and move them around. As anyone with a subwoofer and a teenager knows, sound waves exert pressure. Dr. "This is a toy," he says. Who Wins the IGF? | Cipher Prime Studios. Independent Games Festival (IGF) winners come in all shapes, sizes, and genres. But what sets the handful of winners apart from the hundreds of entries the contest receives each year? Is there anything that developers can do to distinguish themselves from the crowd?
In this article we’ll look at how IGF winners over the last two years did it. g Our Findings This article is damned long, so here’s a summary of our findings. Some type of prior “notoriety”, which might come from the developer’s previous games, a pre-existing version of the game itself, a large or growing fan base, or other factors discussed below.Development times averaging out at over two years.Having at least two people involved in the development process.Being more than just “feature complete” (one of the requirements for an IGF submission).
These findings aren’t necessarily guidelines for developers to follow. Why Examine Past IGF Winners? Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in Game Development Compulsive Contest Winners Blogs. A Rational Approach To Racing Game Track Design. A Rational Approach To Racing Game Track Design By Luke McMillan [In this extensive article, Gamasutra takes an in-depth look at racing game track design, comparing two arcade titles -- Initial D and Maximum Tune -- and contrasting them, at important points, against the approach used in the Gran Turismo series.] Games are about empowerment -- being able to achieve and do things that you can't ordinarily (or legally) achieve in real life. Car racing games, especially arcade racing games, are the perfect example of this. Reaching the level of skill required to drive in F1 will be out of reach of 99.9999 percent of the population. Financial overhead also plays a significant role in being able to drive your car on a race track in real life -- not only do you need a competent car, but you also need to pay all of the fees associated with "legal" racing.
This is where the humble arcade racer comes in. The most essential metrics for rational track design are clipping point and the race line. Understanding comics. Object oriented database. Sticker mmo. How to Make a Gordian Knot Puzzle. Knot Theory. Every one knows from experience how to create a knot. We do this all the time, often unwittingly.
Knots whose ends were glued together and their classification form the subject of a branch of Topology known as the Knot Theory. On the left there is a picture of the Left Trefoil knot. On the right there is the Right Trefoil knot. In the real world, it can be argued that mirror reflections are only mental images whose existence is entirely different from that of the objects whose reflections they are. An aside There is an unorthodox way to create a trefoil knot. For your amusement there is an avi movie that captures creation of a knot (437760 bytes). It's an interesting activity in a Trigonometry or Analytic Geometry classes to figure out the set of equations that results in these pictures. Martin Gardner gives a beautiful introduction into the knot topology in his Knotted Doughnuts, W.H.Freeman and Co, 1986.
I mention these elements of the Knot Theory for two reasons. Knots on the Web. Alternatives to brushing teeth. The Numbers News - Analysis: How Medium Data Can Address Big Data's Woes. © iStockPhoto/enot-poloskun We live in a world that is being transformed by Big Data. The ability to gather and process vast amounts of information, and the development of analytical tools to find meaning in it all, promises to change business, science and social practices. It's already changing the way companies like Target and WalMart do business and how the CDC plans for 'flu season. It's a hot topic for good reason. But it also has its limitations and problems, which are becoming more apparent as Big Data becomes more widely used. To illustrate what I mean by Medium Data, I'm going to look at an example of a Big Data model that has sometimes gone awry, and what its errors tells us about what we need to do to improve Big Data models. Google Flu Trends is a service provided by google.org that estimates current 'flu intensity by analyzing what search terms people in different parts of the world are using on Google's search engines.
There are two main causes of this problem. Clues (episode) The crew of the Enterprise wakes up after apparently passing through a wormhole, finding mysteries surrounding their blackout. Data begins to act suspiciously, prompting the command staff to wonder if he has been compromised. Summary Edit Act One Edit As the crew awakens, Data informs Picard that the crew was knocked out for only 30 seconds. Act Two At the staff briefing Data tries to explain away these contradictions, quoting an obscure theory by Pell Underhill. Act Three Evidence continues to mount that suggests the time of collective unconsciousness was much longer than 30 seconds – indeed, it now appears an entire day had passed. Geordi next attempts to discover whether Data rigged the probe they launched. Act Four Picard decides to set a course back to the T-Tauri system.
Act Five The crew finds that the system in reality contains a Class M planet inhabited by the Paxans, a violently xenophobic and highly advanced race. Memorable Quotes "The doll's my cousin! " "Now, this won't hurt a bit. " Conway's Game of Life. Random Number Generators. Peter Alfeld, --- Department of Mathematics, --- College of Science --- University of Utah Computer generated "Random Numbers" are used in many applications. Indeed, there is a whole set of numerical "Monte Carlo" techniques based on them.
This page describes how (most) random number generators work and most importantly it lets you design and test your own random number generator. To do so just click on the applet nearby. What is a random number generator? Most random number generators generate a sequence of integers by the following recurrence: x 0 = given, x n+1 = P 1 x n + P 2 (mod N) n = 0,1,2,... (*) The notation mod N means that the expression on the right of the equation is divided by N, and then replaced with the remainder.
To understand the mechanics consider the following simple Example. X 0 =79, N = 100, P 1 = 263, and P 2 = 71 Then x 1 = 79*263 + 71 (mod 100) = 20848 (mod 100) = 48, x 1 = 48*263 + 71 (mod 100) = 12695 (mod 100) = 95, Transformation of the original sequence. Random number generation. A random number generator (RNG) is a computational or physical device designed to generate a sequence of numbers or symbols that lack any pattern, i.e. appear random.
The many applications of randomness have led to the development of several different methods for generating random data. Many of these have existed since ancient times, including dice, coin flipping, the shuffling of playing cards, the use of yarrow stalks (by divination) in the I Ching, and many other techniques. Because of the mechanical nature of these techniques, generating large numbers of sufficiently random numbers (important in statistics) required a lot of work and/or time. Thus, results would sometimes be collected and distributed as random number tables. Nowadays, after the advent of computational random number generators, a growing number of government-run lotteries, and lottery games, are using RNGs instead of more traditional drawing methods. Practical applications and uses[edit] Generation methods[edit] Introduction to Probability and Statistics. Calculation and Chance Most experimental searches for paranormal phenomena are statistical in nature.
A subject repeatedly attempts a task with a known probability of success due to chance, then the number of actual successes is compared to the chance expectation. If a subject scores consistently higher or lower than the chance expectation after a large number of attempts, one can calculate the probability of such a score due purely to chance, and then argue, if the chance probability is sufficiently small, that the results are evidence for the existence of some mechanism (precognition, telepathy, psychokinesis, cheating, etc.) which allowed the subject to perform better than chance would seem to permit. Suppose you ask a subject to guess, before it is flipped, whether a coin will land with heads or tails up. But suppose this subject continues to guess about 60 right out of a hundred, so that after ten runs of 100 tosses—1000 tosses in all, the subject has made 600 correct guesses.
Books. Chaitin, Exploring RANDOMNESS. Exercise Introduction. Linear congruential generator. A linear congruential generator (LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of randomized numbers calculated with a linear equation. The method represents one of the oldest and best-known pseudorandom number generator algorithms.[1] The theory behind them is easy to understand, and they are easily implemented and fast, especially on computer hardware which can provide modulo arithmetic by storage-bit truncation. The generator is defined by the recurrence relation: where is the sequence of pseudorandom values, and – the "modulus" – the "multiplier" – the "increment" – the "seed" or "start value" are integer constants that specify the generator. Period length[edit] The period of a general LCG is at most m, and for some choices of factor a much less than that.
And are relatively prime, is divisible by all prime factors of , is a multiple of 4 if is a multiple of 4. Historically, poor choices had led to ineffective implementations of LCGs. Parameters in common use[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] Introduction to Randomness and Random Numbers. <p style="background-color:#ffff90;padding: 0em .5em 0em .5em;font-size:.9em"><strong>Warning:</strong> Your browser does not support JavaScript – RANDOM.ORG may not work as expected</p> RANDOM.ORG Uses Cookies We use cookies to remember your preferences and to analyze our traffic. We do not carry ads and will never sell your data to third parties. Please see our Cookie Policy or visit our Privacy Dashboard for more information. by Dr Mads Haahr RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise. Random numbers are useful for a variety of purposes, such as generating data encryption keys, simulating and modeling complex phenomena and for selecting random samples from larger data sets.
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